Thursday, 20 September 2012

Vol. 6, no. 3


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Archives de France - Guide méthodologique : le format de fichiers PDF

Archives de France - Qualité des disques BLU-Ray enregistrables pour l'archivage des données numériques

De la communauté / From the community
Alliance for Permanent Access to the records of Science in Europe Network - A European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories

Rapport Open GLAM: Recommandations pour l'ouverture des données et des contenus culturels

JISC - Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure

Declaration on Parliamentary Openness

Article - Archives participatives

Publications
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 8, no. 3, 2012 (Special issue on Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections & Archives)

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 9-10 (September-October 2012)

Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 12, no. 2-3 (2012)

Document numérique, vol. 15, 2012/1
 
Library and Archives Canada - Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 4, no. 4 (2012)

Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1 (September-October 2012)

Book - CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action

Book - Perceptual Digital Imaging: Methods and Applications

Book - The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright

Book - Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method of Arrangement and Description for Small Archives (Third Edition)

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
British Records Association Annual Conference - Jewels in the Crown? The Archives of the Empire
10 December 2012, London

2012 New York Archives Week
October 7-13 2012, New York
 
Webinar - Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data (presentations available)
August 22, 2012

2012 ALA Rare Books and Manuscript Section Preconference (Selected Presentations and Documents available)
June 19-22, 2012, San Diego

Sur le web / On the web
Ars Electronica Archives Now Online

New International Internet Preservation Consortium website

UK National Archives podcast - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: clothing, courtship and consequences

Outils / Tools

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Advocacy group files complaint over B.C.’s record on freedom of information requests

Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award 2012 recipient: Darrell Evans

Ads are coming to a library near you: BAnQ gets corporate sponsor


The Ontario Independent Music Archive

Putting faces to an open secret of pioneer days in the West: New exhibit features early prostitutes, madams


Université Laval - Doctorat d'honneur à Bruno Racine (président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Afrique / Africa
Somali radio archives survive decades of looting and conflict

Kenya to Train South Sudanese Records Management Personnel

Liberia - Commending The National Archives Center

Sécurité des archives nationales au Mali : La « mémoire » de l’Etat se consume

Amériques / Americas
The Empire of Haiti: digitising some of the Nineteenth Century


Florida court records are going on computers — but not online


Pittsburgh City Council Approves Plan to Create City Archives Commission

Records discovery could solve 50-year-old Birmingham civil rights era bombing case

UCLA Library preserves audiovisual mementos of the past
 
An Auction, In Cold Blood (about the Kansas Bureau of Investigation case file on the Clutter murders)



Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific Europe / Europa
Why Europe is opening up its cultural history online

Stasi files: The world's biggest jigsaw puzzle

Spain’s Ministry of Justice Creates Archive for Concentration Camp Victims

Head of the Central Archives of Armenia’s Ministry of Defense arrested

20 years later: The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Joseph Goebbels Archives Go on Block: Nazi Propaganda Chief's Early Documents Valued at $200K

France - Patrimoine : Visite des archives de la Société nationale des chemins de fer (SNCF)

Les Français ambigus sur l'usage du papier à la maison et en entreprise

Jersey Archive asks the public to nominate which streets feature in ‘What’s Your Street Story?’

Scotland - Commissioner warns freedom of information rights 'erosion'

UK - The National Archives set to receive London 2012 digital Olympic records
 
Charity’s archive given prestigious national award

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'

International

Access the Full Archive of Public Tweets

What Popular Culture is Telling Us About Libraries and Why We Should Listen

How not to write about libraries – some guidelines for reporters

Call for paper - World Wide Web: Special Issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Vol. 6, no. 2


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
European Commission - Permitted uses of orphan works

Archives de France - Standard d'échange de données pour l'archivage (SEDA), version 1.0

Open the Government - Secrecy Report 2012

De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives - Principles of Access to Archives (version adopted at the 2012 congress)
 
OCLC - Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration

Sérendipité et autres curiosités: critique malicieuse de la société de l’information à usage de ceux qui pensent (et donc archivent)

Publications
Archival Science, vol. 12, no. 3 (September 2012)

Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2-3, 2012 (Special issue on Linked Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums)

City of Richmond (B.C.) Archives News, vol. 17, no. 2 (Fall 2012)

Book - Handbook of Information Management

Book - Securing Digital Video: Techniques for DRM and Content Protection

Book - Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan

Book - The UFO Files: the inside story of real-life sightings

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit - 200th Anniversary of Red River Settlement
Winnipeg, Manitoba Archives Building

Exhibit - Archival Dialogues: Reading The Black Star Collection
September 29–December 16, 2012, Toronto
 
8th International Digital Curation Conference
14 - 16 January 2013, Amsterdam

Sur le web / On the web
Routledge Performance Archive

UK National Archives Podcast - From wheelchair polo to winning professionals: the history of the Paralympics

The UK National Archives and the Victoria and Albert Museum launch resource on Victorian Britain

Slidecast - Measuring Impact for the Digital Humanities

NARA Video - US Constitution: The "Fifth Page"

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Budget cuts threaten church archives

Mining the blogosphere: Concordia researchers develop tools that make sense of social media

The man who keeps The Dead alive: Victoria archivist had no idea a postscript at the end of a letter would lead to his dream job

Afrique / Africa
Security Council to decide International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda archives` fate

Somalia archives survive conflict

Amériques / Americas
Freedom of Information Act backlog grows even as agencies process more requests

Federal Judge Approves Settlement in Department of Justice E-Book Case

Declassified documents add to proof that US helped cover up 1940 Soviet massacre

FBI Sentinel Case Management System Actually Over Budget

US probes reported record-shredding of fuel buys for Afghan army

Georgia Closes State Archives: Only State In The Nation To Cut Historic Service

Alaska - Texts for state business are public records, ruling says


Irish groups seeking alliance with Boston College (regarding the Troubles archives)

Rare tour of motion picture academy's archive

Purdue archives keeps Neil Armstrong's story alive

The AIMS Project and the Stewardship of Born-Digital Archival Materials: An interview with Bradley Daigle

Kari Kraus Talks About Digital Archeology, Video Game Preservation, and Being a “DH’er”

Artist who created Obama 'hope' poster is spared prison in image fraud case

Online Archive Provides a Window on Abolition, Women's Rights, other Progressive 19th Century Movements

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific Europe / Europa


Russian federal Gov’t plans to become paperless by the end of 2017

Swiss National Library Goes Open Data


Dans certaines prisons françaises, des détenus peuvent faire de l'archivage numérique et sonore
Voir sous "Comment s'organise le travail en détention ?"

France - "Peste et Choléra" un roman né grâce aux archives de l’Institut Pasteur

Rare collection of James Joyce poems to go on display in National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)

UK museum revives first-ever film shot in color

Hillsborough and the power of documentary evidence

Discovered: Lord Byron's Copy Of Frankenstein, With Love From Mary Shelley

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey stands for opening 1915 archives

International
Protecting Your Rare Books: Maintaining the Right Environmental Conditions

Help Define Levels for Digital Preservation: Request for Public Comments

The Preservation of Neglect: Centuries-old books on parchment may soon become more accessible than vital scientific writings and data from early computers

Thursday, 6 September 2012

Vol. 6, no. 1


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
U.S. Federal Chief Information Officers Council - A Toolkit to Support Federal Agencies Implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Programs

De la communauté / From the community
JISC - Digital Content for the First World War: understanding the requirements of education and research
 
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap

Middleware and Managing Data and Knowledge in a Data-rich World

Article - Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain?: Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension

Publications
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 40, no. 2 (2012)

Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 1 (Fall 2012)

South Peace Regional Archives Society newsletter, vol. 3, no. 4 (September 2012)

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (September 2012)
 
Broadsheet: the Scottish Council on Archives E-Magazine, no. 18 (September 2012)

Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit: Managing Born-Digital Special Collections and Archival Materials

ARMA TR-21-2012 - Using Social Media in Organizations

ARMA TR-20-2012 - Mobile Communications and Records and Information Management

Livre - Saisies, spoliations et restitutions: archives et bibliothèques au XXe siècle

Report - The Survey of Library & Museum Archival Equipment & Supplies Purchasing Practices

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit - The People Who Built Alberta: A Centennial for Alberta Workers
September 6 to December 21, Edmonton

Canadian Conservation Institute workshop - Care for Photographic Material
October 18-19 2012, Saskatoon

Exhibit - Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013, New York

Call for Papers: Personal Digital Archiving 2013
21-22 February 2013, Maryland

Sur le web / On the web
The Swiss Federal Archives now on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube
@CH_Bundesarchiv or @CH_Archivesfed

Vancouver Archives now on Facebook! What’s not to “like”?

 
International Network of Editors of Diplomatic Documents

Library Juice Academy: online professional development for librarians

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Historical Photographs Bring Survivors Together—Church Archives at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

BAnQ - Lancement du programme Soutien au traitement des archives 2012-2013

Calgary - Grace Presbyterian Church Unveils an Impressive Archival Collection

Saskatoon Council seeks information protection: Privacy commissioner questions the request


Shedding light on Canadian history: letters in Scottish archives discuss settlers, battle

Why should I consider production in 'native' format?

Dalhousie University - MLIS student Stephanie Woods receives an ARMA Leadership Scholarship

Amériques / Americas
Surveys continue to show weaknesses in federal records management

National Coalition for History Asks Federal Court to Review Freedoom of Information Act Decision on Records Pertaining to the Bay of Pigs

Historians Ask the Public to Help Organize the Past, but is the crowd up to it?

Information Overload? Overwhelmed by instant access to news and information? Most Americans like it


New Alabama archives chief Steve Murray wants to boost access to history

Illinois State Archives now available online

Maine - Digital documents debut on historically endangered list


Photo library can license Marilyn Monroe images, court rules



Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific


Pakistan - Govt urged to set up ‘Shamim-ur-Rehman Archives’

Requirements for management and creation of Azerbaijani state bodies’ info web-resources

New Zealand - Sound Archive to be amalgamated with NZ Film Archive

Europe / Europa

Europeana and OCLC agree on approach for member libraries to contribute metadata to the Europeana.eu portal

National Library of Sweden - Manuscripts on computers: collaboration on digital personal archives

Online access to Norwegian literature from the entire 20th century

Anne Frank's Diary coming out as an app

A Lithuanian website exposing the activities of the Soviet KGB secret police crashed soon after it put lists of personnel online

Latvia - State Land Service archive documents to be digitized
 
France - Un courrier diplomatique a été remis à son destinataire après 46 ans
 
Earliest Irish Church Directory (1862) digitized and available online

Sculptor's life to be immortalised by British Library



Amazon to Reissue Dickens Novels in Original Serial Format

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Communing with 300 million pages of documents: a rare look inside Israel's State Archives

Iraq’s Jewish archive has not been smuggled: U.S. official

Mongolia's president meets National Library and Archives of Iran’s director

International
Lost in cyberspace: Amid the explosive growth of digital content on the internet, little thought has been given to preserving things for posterity
 
Reinventing Society In The Wake Of Big Data